All,

I have been working with Garrett D'Amore over the last several months to
add in GLDv3 support to the aging dnet driver. Unfortunately dnet is in
pretty rough shape, and a number of inherent issues (particularly with PHY
selection in the driver) is preventing clean results from NICDRV. Now that
Brussels and Garrett's mii work have been putback, the driver is even more
out of date.

I spoke with Garrett briefly today, and had a thought: Rather than continue
to prop up dnet and build on a shaky foundation, I would like to see the
driver EOL'd and replaced by a clean-room implementation (the emancipation
driver-gate seems a good candidate until the new code can be integrated
into ON).

Assuming community approval, I am stopping NICDRV testing of the patch for
Bug ID 6687881, although it is still available:
http://cr.opensolaris.org/~stallion/dnet/

Thoughts?

Steve

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